Seagate Technology on Wednesday announced the release of a 750GB version of its Barracuda 3.5-inch hard disk drive mechanism.
The newest Barracuda 7200/10 model comes in capacities ranging from 200GB to 750GB and features support for Ultra ATA/100 and SATA interfaces with either 8MB or 16MB of data cache buffer.
The drive makes use of perpendicular recording technology, which stands data bits vertically on the disc media, rather than horizontally as hard disks have traditionally worked.
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That's definitely alot...
Anyway, I guess i'm still stuck with my tiny 20GB hard drive. I remember Segate releasing a 500GB hard drive last year. I wonder what the market is for these things? Not alot of people I suppose. At more than a thousand dollars, I would rather buy a new computer.
I think Segate is obsessed with creating larger and larger hard drives. I wonder when the 1TB one comes?
Anyway, I guess i'm still stuck with my tiny 20GB hard drive. I remember Segate releasing a 500GB hard drive last year. I wonder what the market is for these things? Not alot of people I suppose. At more than a thousand dollars, I would rather buy a new computer.
I think Segate is obsessed with creating larger and larger hard drives. I wonder when the 1TB one comes?
anyway, i guess they will be release the larger hard drivers soon
I have had my computer 2 years, have stuffed it with information and am still using only half of my 80GB capacity. I suppose there must be someone out there who needs such a massive hard drive but it sure as hell ain't me.
It would have application in video editing or such things as FEA processing I would assume.
Video editors, FEA processors, game developers, music editors, servers, remote file hosters, NASA, and the government would need these hard drives.
As for normal, ordinary humans, we would never need them. 80GB should be enough for anybody.
As for normal, ordinary humans, we would never need them. 80GB should be enough for anybody.
It occurred to me that by the time you had loaded this 3.5 hard disk up with say, 700Gig of data and accessed it a few times, you would have probably worn out the motor and bearings. 
I put my computer together about a year ago I have two 250 gig hard drives and one 75 gig so thats like 575 gigs. I'm already using more than half of it. When 1gig hard drives came out like 10 years ago people said "how are you ever going to fill that space?" I remember back in like 1994 when I had an Amiga with 300 megs of hard drive space, it took 3 years to fill that hard drive. Now there are individual programs that are ten times the size of that hard drive. Trust me, 10 years from now people won't be able to figure out how we could live with only 1tb of hard drive space.
I recall my first computer in 1992. It had a 25mhz processor, 200mb hard drive and 4mb of RAM. And that was state-of-the-art!
Nickfun, try multiplying each of those numbers by 100 and you'll get a state-of-the-art computer made in 2006.
Actually, Conda, 100X would still be a bit slow -- and not enough RAM!
QUOTE (Condraz23+Apr 27 2006, 12:27 PM)
That's definitely alot...
Anyway, I guess i'm still stuck with my tiny 20GB hard drive. I remember Segate releasing a 500GB hard drive last year. I wonder what the market is for these things? Not alot of people I suppose. At more than a thousand dollars, I would rather buy a new computer.
I think Segate is obsessed with creating larger and larger hard drives. I wonder when the 1TB one comes?
These sort of harddrives are purchased by internet-server-like businesses, then the HD space is rented out. I think that these are bought by only certian businesses/processionals, not ordinary home users.
Anyway, I guess i'm still stuck with my tiny 20GB hard drive. I remember Segate releasing a 500GB hard drive last year. I wonder what the market is for these things? Not alot of people I suppose. At more than a thousand dollars, I would rather buy a new computer.
I think Segate is obsessed with creating larger and larger hard drives. I wonder when the 1TB one comes?
These sort of harddrives are purchased by internet-server-like businesses, then the HD space is rented out. I think that these are bought by only certian businesses/processionals, not ordinary home users.
there is always going to be use for more and more space on a comp so why bother?? Let Seagate continue its progress.... the world needs it anyways... i have a 80 gb drive and sadly its not enough for me 
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